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Rebuilding our Schools

Maggie Murphy, editor of Parade, on MSNBC's Morning Joe, talks about how two schools upgraded their environment in this video below.

Why should we care? Reading scores go up, attendance is better because students are less sick from allergies caused from older buildings. You get the picture.We know how our physical environment affects our attitude and general well-being.Why do we expect less for our students? Maybe we should stop using "budgets" as the catch-all answer for not doing anything - especially when there are great examples around us such as these below and in video. What do you think?

01.19.2015 | Many parents in the United States assume that (math ability)
is just some kind of aptitude -
some kids have it, some kids don't . . .
The result is most of our kids (in the U.S.) don't do really
well in Math . . ." Watch Now | Comments

01.02.2015 | WATCH: How These Six Minutes May Change Your Idea of Innovative Education (dramatically). Phillips Exeter, Harvard Westlake & Lawrenceville may be taking notes from this charter school leading the next wave. Does your High School look anything like it? Watch Now | Comments

12.08.2014 | . . . .most high schools' science "experiments" are really "demonstrations," because they are "rigged" for the right answer, thereby disqualifying them as true experiments where outcomes are unknown. Watch Now | Comments